EL CERRITO — The city paid $95,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a man who says he was partially blinded when officers shot him during a domestic violence call in 2012, according to records obtained by this newspaper.

Michael C. Johnson, who is serving a 15-year prison term related to the domestic violence, was paid $75,000 for pain and suffering, and $20,000 for past and future medical expenses, according to the agreement. The settlement does not require the city to admit any wrongdoing.

The agreement, obtained by this newspaper through a public records act request, was completed in May, court records show. It includes a confidentiality portion that instructs all parties not to initiate any public statements, or comment to the media beyond a generic statement acknowledging the case was settled.

El Cerrito police chief Paul Keith, citing the agreement, said he couldn’t comment and that “the document will have to speak for itself.”

Johnson was shot in December 2012, after officers responded to a report of an assault near a local gas station. When they arrived they allegedly saw Johnson pistol-whipping a woman, and he ignored officers’ commands. They fired six shots at Johnson after he pointed the gun at the woman, police said at the time.

Authorities described the victim as a longtime girlfriend of Johnson, and say Johnson had a history of domestic violence. That included one 2008 incident, when he allegedly pulled a gun on a woman after accusing her of cheating. Officers responded, used a stun gun on Johnson and arrested him, according to prosecutors.

In 2015, Johnson sued El Cerrito police. In a handwritten complaint he filed from prison, Johnson alleged he did not have a weapon when the officers shot him six times, and that he “almost died twice.” He also wrote that he suffered permanent eye damage when he fell to the pavement, and had been undergoing “extremely painful” physical therapy to recover.

The suit named El Cerrito officers Chi Lee and Mario Guzman as defendants, and asked for $9 million in damages. After filing it pro per, Johnson retained an attorney.

After Johnson was shot, he was arrested and hit with charges that included attempted murder, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. In April 2015, he pleaded no contest to three charges — kidnapping, inflicting corporal injury on a spouse and being a felon in possession of a firearm — and was sentenced to 15 years in state prison.

However, the story didn’t quite end there; by September 2015, Johnson was trying to back out of the deal and rescind his no contest plea. In motions, ironically filed by the same deputy public defender who negotiated his plea deal, Johnson claimed he had inadequate representation and wanted to quash the deal.

In 2016, a Contra Costa County judge denied his motion. Johnson is serving his sentence at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran, and has a release date scheduled in 2025.

Santa Clara County supervisors Tuesday approved $123.1 million in funding for the construction of six new affordable rental housing projects and the rehabilitation of three existing buildings, using money from a $950 million housing bond that county voters passed in 2016.